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It often happens with long video's/ Movies...
Best I've found is to disable Hibernation and sleep mode when plugged into a power source/ Manage power plan/ that way even your screen saver will not effect the downloads.
I leave the default for running on Battery though.Power Plan Settings - Change

It often happens with long video's/ Movies...
Best I've found is to disable Hibernation and sleep mode when plugged into a power source/ Manage power plan/ that way even your screen saver will not effect the downloads.
I leave the default for running on Battery though.

This is not realy a help.
I normaly want the system to suspend to Ram/Disk.
I don't want to switch on and off this feature all the time.

I'm not sure if it helps but when I usually have to download & plan to be away from my lappy, I open up a video file in VLC & pause it, even though I don't have an intention of watching it. I have noted, when I pause a file in VLC, it doesn't even show up screensaver.

While you can overcome this issue if you use download manager as well, I use FDM & until the download completes it doesn't go into sleep mode, only after that it goes into sleep mode, if its still untouched, so is in the case of torrents as well.

Win7 goes to sleep during download

Win7 64 Sleep Timer Won't Put PC to SleepMy PC will not go to sleep on it's own. I've set the timer to 1 minute to test various changes in configuration, but I've yet to succesfully identify the problem.
I ran powercfg -requests and get:
Microsoft Windows
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Performance & Maintenance

download the win7 updateshi my friends.
i know that we can download windows 7 updates from microsft
but is there a way to have install files when we install updates from" Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Update"?

Windows Updates & Activation

cannot download standalone win7 SP1link here.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29#SystemRequirements
when I click continue it just loops back to the...

Windows Updates & Activation

download sleep problemhi, i just got a new laptop running on windows 7 (my last comp ran on xp so im new to this) and im trying to download my games from steam. every time i start a game download i usually do it right before i go to sleep so it will download while im asleep. but my computer always goes into sleep mode...

General Discussion

Sleep after download?Is there anyway to change the power management so that windows 7 will go to sleep when all downloads are finished? I was pre-loading borderlands last night before i went to bed and I woke up this morning and it had gone to sleep because I had forgot to change the power management, Is there anyway...

General Discussion

Win7 Download - One time only?I bought the pre order Win7 with the download option from MS. I've heard there will be an option to download 32 or 64 bit versions.
If I choose the 64bit version and it doesn't work out would I still be able to download the 32 bit version as well or is the MS download a 1 time only deal?
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